Peran Sektor Pertanian dalam Mengurangi Ketimpangan Pendapatan di Wilayah Papua Sebelum dan Sesudah Otonomi Khusus

Abstract

Papua province began imposing special regional autonomy since the central government officially enacted Law No. 21 of 2001 and today changed by Act No. 35 of 2008 on Special Autonomy for Papua and West Papua (Papua region) is basically giving more authority wide for the province and the people of Papua to organize and take care of themselves in the framework of NKRI.

This study aims to determine: (i) the contribution of agriculture sector to GDP growth in the region before and after the Papua special autonomy, (ii) the level of income inequality per capita in the region before and after the Papua special autonomy, (iii) the role of agriculture in reducing income inequality in the community before and after the region Papua special autonomy, and (iv) the effect of investment, labor force, the allocation of funds for regional development, agglomeration in the region Papua, and policy implementation of special autonomy to Papua region against income inequality.Data used in this research is secondary data from the years 1993-2013 and analyzed using analysis of contribution, growth, income inequality (Williamson index, and multiple linear regression with OLS method.